Important: A daily wage worker in rural Latur showed signs of #coronavirus. He returned to his village after work dried up in Pimpri Chinchwad, where his roommate was tested positive. He travelled back home in a packed bus.
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Between 15-22 March, lakhs of migrant labourers have made their way back to their villages in Marathwada because they could not afford to stay where they were. The worker from Latur is only one of them.
#COVIDー19
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A doctor in rural Latur tells me this has suddenly increased their burden. His primary health centre is supposed to cover for 40,000 people. They don't have adequate protective gear, and are using old masks that they've been using for years.
Because doctors cannot inspect everyone at the clinic, Asha workers have been deployed to go door-to-door, and they are even more vulnerable, traveling without sanitisers and masks. In Latur, the doctor said they were using an old cloth to stitch masks for the Asha workers.
